Faucet and attaching bracket



0. S. BURMAN.

FAUCET AND ATTACHING BRACKET.

APPLICATION men FEB. 10, 19 21.

1,398,767, Patented Nov. 29, 1921.,

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rAUcET AND ATTACHING BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29, 1921.

Application filed February 10, 1921. Serial No. 443,832.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets and Attaching Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invent-ion has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efiiclent faucet and bracket for attaching the same to a laundry tray or other support.

To the above end, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Figurel is a view partly in front elevation and partly in vertical section illustrating the invention attached to a laundry tray having two compartments;

Fig. 2 is a view principally in side elevation with the laundry tray sectioned on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

' Fig. 3 is a reanelevation of the attaching bracket. The invention, as illustrated includes a. double faucet, in the body ,gf which are laterallyspaced hot and cold water compart ments 4 and 5, respectively. These com- )artments 4 and 5 are open' at their tops and have internal screw threads to receive the screw-threaded lower ends of vertically disposed hot and cold water supply pipes 6 and 7, respectively. Below the compartments 4 and 5 is a common mixing chamber 8, with which said compartments have communication through ports 9 normally closed by valves 10 attached to horizontal stems 11 which work in stufiin boxes 12 on opposite sides of the body 0 the faucet. These stems 11 are alined, extend in opposite directions and have handles 13 applied to their outer ends. On the bottom of the body of the faucet is a depending centrally located nipple 14 on which is mounted, as, shown, by screwthreaded engagement, a swinging nozzle 15 OLOF S. BURMAN,

with which the mixing chamber 8 has communication through said nipple 14. Inte-.

grally formed on the bottom of the body of the faucet, on opposite sides of the nipple 14, is a pair of depending horizontally elongated anchor lugs 16 that are substantially round in cross section and connected to the body of the faucet by short necks.

The invention also includes a bracket for attaching the faucet to a support, which, as illustrated, is a laundry tray 17 having two compartments. This bracket includes two edgewise spaced sets of upper and lower co- 0 crating pairs of inner and outer jaws.

e upper inner and outer jaws are indicated .by the numerals 18 and 19, respectively, and the lower inner and outer jaws are indicated by the numerals 20 and 21, respectively. The jaws 18 and 20. and the jaws 19 and 21, of each set, are integrally formed, and the jaws 18 and 20 of the two sets are connected by a tie-bar 22. It will be noted that the jaws 18 and 2,0. of both sets. and the tie-bar 22; are in the form of a single H-shaped casting. For the sake of convenience, the jaws 18-20 and 19-21 will hereinafter be termed fixed jaws and movable jaws, respectively.

Each set of fixed and movable jaws is intermediately connected by a nut-equipped bolt 23. These bolts 23. at their heads, are square and fit correspondingly formed seats from turnin or removed therefrom. The upper or free ends of the jaws 18 and 20 have segmental cooperating seats 24 adapted to receiveand hold the anchor lugs ltigas best shown in Fig. 1 Each set ofjaw's 20 and 21 is adapted to embrace the" back of the tray 17 with .its central partition between the two sets thereof. The jaws 20 are provided with shoulders 25 alined with the under edge of the tie-bar 22," and which tie-bar, together with said shoulders. rest upon the-upper edge of the back and partition of the tray 17 and support the attaching bracket therefrom.

.The fixed jaws 20, below their shoulders 25, have flat engagement with the respective face of the tray 17 throughout their entire length, and the inne'r faces of the movable jaws 21 are made concave to clear the back wall of said tray so that only their free or lower ends engage said back ,wall at a point substantially'midway between the shoulders 25 and the lower ends of the fixed jaws 20.

Obviously. by tightening the nuts 0n the bolts 23, the jaws 18 and 19 aresecurely clamped onto opposing faces of the anchor lugs 16. and the jaws 2H and 21 are clamped onto opposing faces of the hack of the tray 17.

It will be noted that the several chambers in the body of the improved faucet. together with the nipples tor the stutlin; boxes and nozzle and also thc anchor lugs. arc all located in the same plane. making, a very sim ple. castin; that can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost and, at the same time. is very compact. The Hsl1a,])ed design of the attaching brachct permits the same to straddle the central partition of the twocompartment tra IT and also all'ords a. clearance for the nozzle 15. so that the; amc may be SWHUQ from one side of said partition to the other to discharge water into either of the compartments in the tray. The attaching bracket sccurcl holds the faucet in a position over the tra v against movement in all directions. By the usc ot' the iniprovcd faucet and attaching bracket. a large amount of labor and material is saved in installing a hot and cold water supply for laundry trays.

\Vhat I'claim is:

'1. The combination with a faucet having a swinging nozzle, of a support, and an attachin g bracket having pairs of clamping jaws engageable with the faucet on each side of the swinging nozzle and with the support.

2. The combination with a faucet. of a support, and an attaching bracket having pairs of clamping jaws cngageable with the faucet and the support, one of the jaws of the pair engaging the support being laterally otlset to afford a supporting: shoulder. 3. The combination with a faucet having; an anchor lug. of a support. and an attaching bracket having jaws cngagcable with said anchor bu: and support.

4. The. combination with a l'aucet having a swinging nozzle and a pair of anchor lugs located one on each side of said nozzle. of an H-shapcd attaching bracket having jaws cngagfcablc with said anchor lugs.

The combination with a t'aucct having a swinging nozzle and a pair of anchor lugs located one on cach side ol' said nozzle. of a. support. and an H-shapcd attaching bracket, ha\' in; jaws on its uprights cngagicablc with said anchor lugs and a support.

t). The combination with a faucet having a swinging nozzle and a pair of anchor lugs located one on each side of said nozzle. of a support. and an H-shapcd attaching brachct. having jaws on its uprights engragzeablc with saidanchorlugrs and a support. said bracket also having/a supporting: shoulder.

7. The co nibination with a faucet having a swinging-muzzle and a pair of anchor lugs located one on each side of said nozzlc of an H-shapcd attaching bracket having upper and lower fixed jaws on its uprights. upper and lower movable jaws cooperating with the lixed jaws, an'd nut-equipped bolts connecting the movable jaws to the fixed jaws. the cooperating movable and fixed jaws bein; adapted to be clamped onto said anchor lugs and said lower fixed and movable jaws bein; adapted to be clamped onto a support.

lntestimon- -v whereof I ailix my signature.

()LOF S. BURMAN. 

